BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A police investigator was missing after being abducted in the militia-ridden Libyan city of Benghazi, police said on Thursday, but tests on a charred body showed it was not his. The corpse charred with hydrochloric acid and found in the Buhmeida district was not that of the missing Captain Abdel-Salam al-Mahdawi, head of the city's criminal investigation unit, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said. "The body that was found in Benghazi was that of another...

The Illinois State Police captain was used to taking command in high-profile cases, among them overseeing dozens of officers in the investigation that led to the arrest of former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson. But in September, when a life-threatening heart condition swept Carl Dobrich into an operating room, the 6-foot-6, 260-pound recently retired officer was forced to turn over control to a team of surgeons and to his wife, Kathy, who knew he still had a...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to death for the 2012 killing of two men in the southern province of Qena, state news agency MENA reported. Mahmoud Fathi Ali Al-Ataar, a police captain, was standing trial on charges of killing a local driver and a salesman in January 2012 and stealing 130,000 Egyptian pounds ($18,600) from the men. The judge in Qena ruled that the policeman's file be referred to the mufti, the...

Chicago police did not report about a quarter of the aggravated assault and aggravated battery victims in its crime statistics in 2012, an audit by the city's top watchdog found. The department failed to follow state guidelines by counting each aggravated assault or battery as one incident, not each victim as it should have, leading to the underreporting because of all the incidents that involved multiple victims, according to the inspector...

By David Jones NEWARK, May 24 (Reuters) - A New Jersey police officer on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges related to a suspected arson fire early this week at the home of an Edison police captain who was inside with his family. Officer Michael Dotro, 35, was arrested at his home in Manalapan, New Jersey, on Thursday and charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated arson, for allegedly setting the fire, according to a...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a police officer to death for the 2012 killing of two men in the southern province of Qena, state news agency MENA reported. Mahmoud Fathi Ali Al-Ataar, a police captain, was standing trial on charges of killing a local driver and a salesman in January 2012 and stealing 130,000 Egyptian pounds ($18,600) from the men. The judge in Qena ruled that the policeman's file be referred to the mufti, the...

Hugh Holton, 54, a Chicago police captain and crime fiction writer whose books drew on his law-enforcement experiences, died of cancer Friday, May 18, in the University of Chicago Hospitals. "He was a fabulously authentic writer, with no end of material," said Bob Gleason, executive editor of Tor/Forge Books in New York, which published eight of Mr. Holton's mysteries. "Hugh had gone from serving in Vietnam to policing Chicago streets, and he was much admired by cops. His total book sales were well over a...

Concealed carry This is in response to "Careful; Maybe he's carrying a concealed gun" (Perspective, Feb. 27), by Gary Rogaliner, a commercial airline captain. Rogaliner described his efforts to be licensed to carry a concealed gun pursuant to an Illinois law passed in response to a recent court decision. Rogaliner said once he can legally carry a concealed gun, he might carry it with him to buy groceries. Or he might not. The fact that people at Rogaliner's grocery store will never know...

John Grentzner, 75, of Chicago, a retired police captain who received one of the department's highest honors for bravery after freeing a woman and two children held hostage by a gunman, died of cardiovascular disease Saturday, Nov. 16, in a friend's home in Arlington Heights. Mr. Grentzner earned the Lambert Tree Award in 1962 after he entered a North Side apartment and shot the gunman, allowing the hostages to run to safety. Chicago Police Officer Nadine Burke was with Mr. Grentzner during a similar...

BAGHDAD, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The speaker of Iraq's parliament narrowly escaped death on Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy close to the northern city of Mosul, his office said. Usama al-Nujaifi, one of Iraq's most senior Sunni Muslim politicians, was visiting al-Salam area south of Mosul when the bomb exploded, badly damaging a vehicle carrying his bodyguards, who were wounded, it said. No group immediately claimed responsibility...

A retired Chicago police officer who was the only bodybuilder to beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Mr. Olympia competition has died. Sergio Oliva, 71, a longtime Rogers Park District officer, was found unresponsive by a family member Monday and pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital Evanston, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Oliva defected to the United States from Cuba in 1963 at a Pan American Games qualifying competition in...

By Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Eight Los Angeles police officers broke their department's policy when they opened fire on two women, wounding them after mistaking their truck for one driven by a rogue ex-cop wanted in a manhunt, officials said on Tuesday. One woman was shot twice in the back and her adult daughter was wounded by flying debris. Last year, they received a $4.2 million settlement from the city. Police Chief...

Mass for John R. O`Shea, 70, a retired Chicago police commander, will be said at 9:30 a.m. Monday in St. William Catholic Church, 2600 N. Sayre Ave. Mr. O`Shea, of the Northwest Side, died Thursday after he was stricken, apparently with a heart attack, while shoveling snow at his Northwest Side home. He was taken to West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, where he was pronounced dead. Mr. O`Shea, a police officer for 33 years, retired in 1978 as a captain. Since then, he had been chief engineer at...

CHAMPAIGN -- Nate Creer, the father of Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, is banned from campus for a year after his arrest for resisting arrest following a fight in the stands during Illinois' 42-3 loss to Michigan State on Saturday, Illinois police captain Roy Acree confirmed to the Tribune. Such a ban is common, Acree said, for someone who isn't a student and has created trouble at the school. Creer pleaded not guilty to the charge Monday in court and has a pretrial...

Ford Heights` mayor said Friday that he considers the south suburb's police chief out of a job, even though the chief says he intended only to resign his title and keep working as a police captain. "He resigned," Mayor Saul Beck said of Police Chief Jack Davis. "That means what it means." But Davis said he stipluated in his resignation letter, accepted by the Village Board Feb. 17, that he would become a police captain when his resignation takes effect Tuesday....

Nathan Creer, the father of Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, was arrested Saturday on a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest following an altercation involving fans in the crowd during the Illini's 42-3 loss to Michigan State, according to Illinois campus police. About 10 people were involved in the fight, Illinois police captain Roy Acree said, and it was likely started by one spectactor accidentally bumping into another fan. Creer,...

A police captain with the Clearwater, Fla., Police Department will be taking over this month as the new police chief in La Grange. Ramutis Ray Kaminskas, 42, a 20-year veteran of the Clearwater department and current commander of that department's support service division, is a native of Ohio. Kaminskas moves from a department of 450 officers serving a community of 102,000 residents to a department of 28 officers in a village of 15,600. Kaminskas replaces Chief Gary Konzak, who was...

WASHINGTON - In the liberal remake of "Casablanca," the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to "round up the usual weapons. " It's always the weapon and never the shooter. Twelve people are murdered in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, and before sundown Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called for yet another debate on gun violence. Major opprobrium is heaped on the AR-15, the semiautomatic used in the Newtown, Conn., massacre. ...

By David Jones NEWARK, May 24 (Reuters) - A New Jersey police officer on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges related to a suspected arson fire early this week at the home of an Edison police captain who was inside with his family. Officer Michael Dotro, 35, was arrested at his home in Manalapan, New Jersey, on Thursday and charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated arson, for allegedly setting the fire, according to a...